'The New Yorker' Compares Abuse Victims Love, Rihanna

In a recent column, The New Yorker analyzes two high profile cases of domestic abuse: one involving singer Rihanna and the other Cockeysville native Yeardley Love,

Columnist Amy Davidson argues that although both women were involved in on-again, off-again , one ending in murder and the other in a public reconciliation, the situations could have been easily reversed.

Chevy Chase man George Huguely who, like his ex-girlfriend Love, was a lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, was convicted of

The New Yorker reports that Rihanna's beau, musician Chris Brown, previously pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault.

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